The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-04-07
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned by Telegraph and Mail
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
THE members of the extreme left in the
italian Chamber Of Deputies have passed
resolutions censuring the Government for
entering into alliance with Austria and Ger
many.
GESERAL ROSWELL s. RIPLEY died from
apoplexy while at breakfast in New York
on the 29th. He served in the Confederate
army and was tn officer who directed the
fire on Fort Sumter.
HoS. THOMAS c. REYNOLDS, ex-Lieuten-
ant Governor Of Missouri, committed sui
eide at the st. Louis custom house on the
30th by plunging down the elevator shaft
from the third floor. He fell a distance Of
eighty feet and crushed in his skull. The
cause Of the rash act was mental deranGe-
ment, superinduced by malaria
AUTHENTIC information has been received
from St. Petersburg that fresh attempt
had been made upon the Cars life at the
Gatschina palace on the 29th. The Gar
was not injured.
SAN TURNER, the well known hotel clerk
and part proprietor of the Grand Pacific,
Chicago, died on the 3Oth. Mr.. Turner was
one of the oldest and most popular hotel
clerks in the country.
THE New Jersey Senate has passed the
bill giving women the right Of suffrage in
school elections.
THE Nebraska Legislature adjourned sine
die March 81.
JOHN GODFREY SAKE, the poet, died at
Albany, n. Y, on the 3lst. He was born
at Highgate, VT, June =, 1916.
THE President has directed the allot-
ment Of lands in severalty to the Indians
on the Warm Springs reservation in Ore
gon. This is the first action taken under
the Indian Severalty act which was passed
by the last Congress.
THE British Cabinet has decided to aban-
don the clause of the Irish Criminal Law
Amendment bill which provides for the
changing Of the venue from Dublin to Lon
don in certain classes of criminal trials,
thus practically removing the greatest
cause of the Liberal Unionist opposition to
the bill.
TAMMANY has passed resolutions con-
demning the Crosby High License bill.
Resolutions were also adopted condemning
Lord Salisbury's Irish policy and sympa-
thizing with the Irish people.
CHARLEsS. FAIRCHILD has been appointed
to succeed Manning as Secretary of the
Treasury. He had already acted for con-
siderable period in that capacity, conse-
quent upon Mr.. Manning's sickness.
A DISPATCH was received in Kansas City
from Governor Marmaduke stating, in
reply to question concerning militia COM
panieS, that he was about to disband all the
companies of militia in the State.
HERR MosT has issued another manifesto
against the capitalists and police.
PRESIDENT DIAz opened the Mexican
Congress on the 1st. Nothing of great i'm
portance was outlined in his message.
REV. JAMES CURRAN, of New York, has
been ordered to do penance for sustaining
DIR. McGlynn.
MARTIN V. MONTGOMERY, the retiring
Commissioner of Patents, has been APP
pointed Associate Judge Of the Supreme
Court of the District of Columbia, in place
of Judge McArther, resigned.
CLoTURE was voted by 361 to 253 in the
British Commons on the lst and further de-
bate on the Coercion bill, first reading, was
shut off.
THE French Senate has passed the Cattle
Duties bill as approved by the Chamber of
Deputies.
QUEEN VICTORIA arrived at Cannes.
France, on the 1st. The houses were decor
ated and the people cheered her.
THE prosecution against Dillon, O'Brien,
Redmond and Crilly for connection with
the Irish plan of campaign has been aban-
doned.
REV. A. II. BRAUN, censor of the Roman
Catholic diocese of New York, lectured
recently in opposition to Henry Georges
land theory.